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People who 'see' numbers have better memories for dates

People who 'see' numbers have better memories for dates

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project has shown that people who perceive numbers visually, and who see sequences of numbers as visual patterns, have better memories for dates and events in the past than ...


Moral dilemma scenarios prone to biases

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Picture the following hypothetical scenario: A trolley is headed toward five helpless victims. The trolley can be redirected so that only one person's life is at stake. Psychologists and philosophers have been using moral ...


Research in aircraft control systems and robotics helps improve flight safety

Research in aircraft control systems and robotics helps improve flight safety

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At first blush, it may not seem like robots and aircraft control systems have anything in common. When you put them together, however, you arrive at the core of Guangjun Liu’s unique research ...


Senate Dems look to close deal on health overhaul (AP)

Senate Dems look to close deal on health overhaul

Medicine & Health / Health

created 8 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Outnumbered Republicans are vowing to delay passage of historic health care legislation as long as possible after jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisive vote.


NSAIDs: Take 'em early and often when competing? Think again

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Athletes' superstitions and rituals can help them get psyched up for contests, but when these rituals involve non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which many athletes gobble down before and during events, they ...


Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change (AP)

Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 12

(AP) -- Far from Copenhagen's turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global ...


Breathlessness eased in patients with rare, often fatal disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with a rare, deadly disease that mostly affects young women felt a dramatic reduction in breathlessness using an approved drug, according to study results published online today in The Journal of Heart and Lung Tr ...


Studying how black holes grow

Studying how black holes grow

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...


World's mayors tackle climate change on their own (AP)

World's mayors tackle climate change on their own

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- It isn't easy getting Italy's city dwellers out of their Fiats, off their Vespa scooters and onto bicycles to ride to work, "like here in Copenhagen," says an Italian environmental official.


Obama hails 60th Senate vote for health care (AP)

Obama hails 60th Senate vote for health care

Medicine & Health / Health

created 19 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 4

(AP) -- Jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisive vote for historic health care legislation Saturday, putting President Barack Obama's signature issue firmly on a path ...



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